Factory Girl

the continuous rising of our economy. The extreme increase among jobs contributed to America’s wealth and money, there was a significant drop in homelessness, and families were allowed to live comfortably. “The image in document three shows that factories will begin showing up in small towns and villages” (Document 3). Now that there are more facilities to work, there are more jobs available for the common man. Previously there was only farming, but companies began moving into villages, meaning

industrialization. The Second Industrial Revolution was led by the United States causing countless new business and factories to start opening up. By the mid-1800’s child labor started to be an extensive concern because the factories were both dangerous and disgusting. Child labor became a substantial matter once machines in factories replaced hand labor because machines were extremely unsafe. When the factories started to open more workers were needed that would be paid very little. During the Industrial Revolution

was a time where farms changed to factories . Due to the rule at that time that didn't allow them to follow after Europe and America because they didn't want to be in contact with them. After 100 years, Japan finally followed after and making new inventions such as the Spinning Jenny or the Power loom helped create jobs for men and women. Women workers had contributed to textile mills during the Industrial Revolution but factories took advantage of the young girls or women who couldn't read looking

workspace of the "modern day" factories.

revolution. Well, here’s the problem: small land owners aka farmers still wanted their land, but they got kicked out to the city. These cities weren’t the best because people lived in crowded small homes. “Rich people” wanted to rule the world by opening factories and making the lower class people to work in it. These people worked more than twelve hours a day. This wasn’t fair because they were separated from their families. Their lives were just work. Also, they didn’t get a lot of sleep. While some argue

sweatshop factories assembling USA's products from stores as Apple and Walmart. China’s Sweatshop tends to violate human labor’s rights by forcing overtime and going under the mandatory minimum wage and other violations as long hour without pay, sexual, and physical harassment. China's sweatshop factory tends to be quite popular because is cheap labor, free trade zone, or low fee rates in taxes. The reason store as Apple and Walmart has their product to be assembled in China's factory is to avoid

the cotton gin and the loom were housed in what became known as factories. Just the introduction of factories alone created a change in the workforce as this made it so people could not work from the comfort of their own home. The changes in the work environment also lead to unjust pay scales, treatment, and expectations. The Industrial Revolution was a result of inventions that changed the work environment by introducing factories; the provided opportunities for a woman to join the workforce and

The industrial age was a time of revolution for Europe, when the introduction of factories, and the use of chemicals were a few of the changes that occurred. With the new restructuring of society, it was also a time of drastic adjustments to how Europeans led their lives in response to the aforementioned changes, and many more. William Booth, Henry Mayhew and Jeanne Bouvier discussed in their texts some of the aspects that characterized the quality of life of the lower classes. Booth, the founder

The factory workers at Lowell were mostly young women from New England farm families. During that time, employers hired women instead of men due to the shortage of labor and willingness of a woman to work for lower wages. As a result, for the first time in the U.S. history, the existence of women as wage earners became prevalent. By 1840, there were about 8,000 women working in the textile mills in Lowell, which was about 75% of the total workforce in those factories. Most of those women were from

The Industrial Revolution was a fundamental change in the ways goods were to be produced. How this was done is people start to invent machines that would do the same job but a lot faster, there for replacing human labor. They had the spinning wheel and the hand loom but they invented the water frame (1769), spinning jenny (1764) , spinning mule (1779), power loom (1785), cotton gin (1794), steam engine (1712) , sewing machine (1846), and the flying shuttle (1733). These ended up collapsing the